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No big surprise here: A Scottish terrier named Ch. Roundtown Mercedes Of Maryscot, Sadie to her friends, has won the terrier group at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show.

Sadie was heavily favored to win, but odds-on favorites have certainly lost before; witness this year's working group competition, for example, in which a top-winning golden retriever widely expected to win wound up losing to a Brittany that was hardly a household name.

Despite her winning record, her handler Gabriel Rangel kept his thoughts on the work at hand rather than getting his hopes up for a big win. "Expectations? Never expectations," Rangel told the Associated Press. "If you think that way, you get nervous and in trouble."